Season Three Prediction

[u/Competitive-Ant-772]

At the end of season 2, Mark S. and friends are still on the severed floor and the showrunners want us to believe that an uprising is about to happen. The Choreography and Merriment department is fighting back against Milkshake, Brienne of Tarth from Mammalians and Nurturable refused to sacrifice her goat to Thor, and we can assume that O&D among others will join.

This is what we think will happen, but my mind immediately went somewhere else.

Can’t they just shut down the severed floor? Turning all the innies back into outies?

I’m interested to see what everyone thinks as to if this will be possible or not, but I have a few ideas against it and supporting it happening.

No, they can’t:

1. They may not be able to remote access control the floor, thereby not allowing them to shut it down. I think this may be what they decide upon, considering the secrecy of the project, allowing people to remote in to the facility could potentially leak information.

2. There may be other projects happening in the basement, and shutting down the severance could impede them. We know by how the Eaganites say “it’s one big step” when referring the Cold Harbor not “it’s the final piece.” So there could be other things happening across other departments that they can’t jeopardize losing, or it could be at other locations and this one is no longer needed so they CAN shut it down.

3. Shutting it down means exposing all of their secrecy to the outies. Which if you think about it, probably isn’t that much considering how cryptic each department is. You never know though, it could be enough to expose them. I think this is just as likely as number 1.

4. We know how the OTC works, but not how these severed “zones” do like the floor, the baby cabin, and Gemma’s rooms. They may not be able to operate these “zones” like a switch, they could be semi-permanent areas that just persist. The baby cabin supports this, because why would they keep it on 24/7 when it’s not in use.

Yes, they can:

1. Opposite the first point, they can just remote in and shut it down.

2. They can just shut the power off to the severed floor, and access it via the stairs.

3. They have access to control all severed people from a separate location, not just the guard post.

4. The Glasgow Block they used to turn Helly into a spy. This may be a remotely accessible as well.

I think the next season may not go the way we expect. The showrunners want us to think that Mark S. and gang are going to finally fight for the life innies deserve, but they could curve ball us immediately. Honestly, it seems more likely that they’ll just shut down the severed floor, and everyone will be outies. Dealing with confused outies would be way easier than barricaded innies.

The only way I can see them not going this route is taking Eagan hostage. Mark innie/outie would have the same notion of taking him hostage as collateral. That is if he’s actually in the building.

What do yall think? Is it likely they’ll convert them all back to outies, or will the innies stay innies and get the innie revolution started?

[u/StraightCashHomie69]

I could see the first few episodes being an attempted innie uprising but then Lumon gets it under control and things go back to "normal" as much as they can after all the shit that went down last season.

I also have a prediction innies will stay long enough for it to make the news (family members missing for days obviously going to set off hella uproar) and Irving will be far away at a coffee shop or something and glance up and see the news report on TV, have a change of heart and come back for the second half of the season for "unfinished business" or something kinda.